Re: [Chicken-users] command-line-arguments

[Elf]

i'd recommend the r5rs primitive 'write' instead of 'display', 'printf', etc,
if you want the external representation of your code. :)

-elf

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Wietse Jacobs wrote:

> 2008/10/10 Peter Bex <address@hidden>:
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:04:13PM +0200, Wietse Jacobs wrote:
> > >   (display (command-line-arguments))
> >
> > That's (kind of) a limitation of how 'display' works.
> > #;1> (display (list "foo" "bar"))
> > (foo bar)
> >
> > Instead, you want:
> > #;2> (printf "~S" (list "foo" "bar"))
> > ("foo" "bar")
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Note to self: "Don't rely on `display` to tell you what your code does."